Abstract:Deligny's practical theory can be envisioned as a materialism. This materialism is based on the dialectical, conflictual, symbiotic, and bipolar coexistence of the "human" and the "Man-that-we-are," of the innate and the acquired, and of the milieu of the human and that of the animal. It is founded with a view to the space—the conditions and circumstances—that make it so that the individual becomes what they are. In brief his materialism is heir to a thought of the milieu as a determinate dimension of the production of the individual. This article was originally published in French in "Lenine," Actuel Marx, no. 62 (2017): 124–39.
{"title":"The Concrete Materialism of Fernand Deligny: Toward a Thought of the Human Milieu","authors":"M. Miguel, Edward Guetti","doi":"10.1353/cul.2023.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cul.2023.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Deligny's practical theory can be envisioned as a materialism. This materialism is based on the dialectical, conflictual, symbiotic, and bipolar coexistence of the \"human\" and the \"Man-that-we-are,\" of the innate and the acquired, and of the milieu of the human and that of the animal. It is founded with a view to the space—the conditions and circumstances—that make it so that the individual becomes what they are. In brief his materialism is heir to a thought of the milieu as a determinate dimension of the production of the individual. This article was originally published in French in \"Lenine,\" Actuel Marx, no. 62 (2017): 124–39.","PeriodicalId":46410,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Critique","volume":"16 1","pages":"1 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80816123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article explores through a reading of Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz how public transport as a public space serves as a technology of discipline. First, the article argues that modern subjectivity is articulated at least in part through public transport as a public space. Second, the article outlines how the conception of modernity formed in public transport as a public space requires defining the lumpenproletariat as a constitutive other of modernity insofar as they cannot substantially participate in the public culture of modern public transport. Third, in order to maintain its hegemony, modern culture disciplines the lumpenproletariat into becoming modern subjects by using the public space of modern public transport as a disciplinary technology.
{"title":"Modernity, Hegemony, and Public Transport as Public Space: A Reading of Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz","authors":"Maxwell Woods","doi":"10.1353/cul.2023.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cul.2023.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores through a reading of Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz how public transport as a public space serves as a technology of discipline. First, the article argues that modern subjectivity is articulated at least in part through public transport as a public space. Second, the article outlines how the conception of modernity formed in public transport as a public space requires defining the lumpenproletariat as a constitutive other of modernity insofar as they cannot substantially participate in the public culture of modern public transport. Third, in order to maintain its hegemony, modern culture disciplines the lumpenproletariat into becoming modern subjects by using the public space of modern public transport as a disciplinary technology.","PeriodicalId":46410,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Critique","volume":"60 1","pages":"140 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79005675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In its examination of the popular critical deployment of "postmodernism" in analyses of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's final and most widely read text, Dictée, this essay aligns Cha's work with the modernist documentary. Readers have often suggested that Cha's postmodernist innovations highlight Dictée's radical break from a larger cultural timeline. This essay proposes, instead, that the text updates, rather than turns away from, documentary techniques of a prior era. It does so specifically, this essay argues, within the context of global economic transformations wrought by late capitalism. By mapping some of the contradictory relations of late capitalist history onto a formal intersection between the limits of historical documentation and the technics of mediation, Cha demonstrates how changes in the structure of capitalism prompt changing concepts of what it means to document history.
摘要:本文考察了“后现代主义”在分析莎·哈·庆·查(Theresa Hak Kyung Cha)最后也是最广泛阅读的文本《dictsame》时的流行批评部署，并将查的作品与现代主义纪录片联系起来。读者们经常认为，金庸的后现代主义创新凸显了他与更大的文化时间线的彻底决裂。这篇文章提出，相反，文本更新，而不是背离，前一个时代的纪实技术。本文认为，在晚期资本主义所造成的全球经济转型的背景下，它确实是这样做的。通过将晚期资本主义历史的一些矛盾关系映射到历史文献的局限性和调解技术之间的正式交叉点上，金庸展示了资本主义结构的变化如何促使对记录历史的意义的概念发生变化。
{"title":"Dislocation and Surplus in Dictée's Sites of Recording","authors":"T. J. Nez","doi":"10.1353/cul.2023.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cul.2023.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In its examination of the popular critical deployment of \"postmodernism\" in analyses of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's final and most widely read text, Dictée, this essay aligns Cha's work with the modernist documentary. Readers have often suggested that Cha's postmodernist innovations highlight Dictée's radical break from a larger cultural timeline. This essay proposes, instead, that the text updates, rather than turns away from, documentary techniques of a prior era. It does so specifically, this essay argues, within the context of global economic transformations wrought by late capitalism. By mapping some of the contradictory relations of late capitalist history onto a formal intersection between the limits of historical documentation and the technics of mediation, Cha demonstrates how changes in the structure of capitalism prompt changing concepts of what it means to document history.","PeriodicalId":46410,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Critique","volume":"76 1","pages":"104 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77537806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Skott-Myhre, S. Kouri, Kathleen S. G. Skott-Myhre
Abstract:This article engages a Lacanian psychoanalytic reading of the process of subjectification that produces the settler as a social subject. The analysis is rooted in a reading of Lacan through Deleuze and Guattari, which the article argues may offer an alternative nonessentialist and more historically grounded analysis. Specifically, this article attends to the role that the fetish plays in the ongoing cultural appropriation of Indigenous spirituality and culture within an ongoing neocolonial material context.
{"title":"The Perversity of Colonial Desire: The Erotics of the Settler Unconscious","authors":"H. Skott-Myhre, S. Kouri, Kathleen S. G. Skott-Myhre","doi":"10.1353/cul.2023.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cul.2023.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article engages a Lacanian psychoanalytic reading of the process of subjectification that produces the settler as a social subject. The analysis is rooted in a reading of Lacan through Deleuze and Guattari, which the article argues may offer an alternative nonessentialist and more historically grounded analysis. Specifically, this article attends to the role that the fetish plays in the ongoing cultural appropriation of Indigenous spirituality and culture within an ongoing neocolonial material context.","PeriodicalId":46410,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Critique","volume":"18 1","pages":"22 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87876996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In Our Aesthetic Categories (2012), Sianne Ngai theorizes the "cute," interpreting the turn to the small object in twentieth-century avant-garde poetry as a symptom of late capitalism's hyper-commodification. In response, this essay argues that the cute fails to accurately describe the projects of some avant-garde poets such as Lorine Niedecker. While Ngai's theory presumes a bourgeois subject who projects a sensuous relationship onto objects, obscuring the reality of commodification, Niedecker's poems do not enjoy the luxury of this projection. As a working-class poet, she is aware of objects' impact on her comfort and survival as part of her daily labors. Instead, Niedecker's poems offer a portrait of objects in use, recognizing the poet's reliance on material conditions to live, and further, to create.
{"title":"The Limits of the Cute: The Persistence of Use in Lorine Niedecker's Poetics","authors":"Kelly Hoffer","doi":"10.1353/cul.2023.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cul.2023.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In Our Aesthetic Categories (2012), Sianne Ngai theorizes the \"cute,\" interpreting the turn to the small object in twentieth-century avant-garde poetry as a symptom of late capitalism's hyper-commodification. In response, this essay argues that the cute fails to accurately describe the projects of some avant-garde poets such as Lorine Niedecker. While Ngai's theory presumes a bourgeois subject who projects a sensuous relationship onto objects, obscuring the reality of commodification, Niedecker's poems do not enjoy the luxury of this projection. As a working-class poet, she is aware of objects' impact on her comfort and survival as part of her daily labors. Instead, Niedecker's poems offer a portrait of objects in use, recognizing the poet's reliance on material conditions to live, and further, to create.","PeriodicalId":46410,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Critique","volume":"32 1","pages":"105 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87675504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Miguel, Edward Guetti, H. Skott-Myhre, S. Kouri, Kathleen S. G. Skott-Myhre, Benjamin Schreier, T. J. Nez, Kelly Hoffer, Maxwell Woods, Benjamin Williams, Elizabeth Wijaya, T. Conley
Abstract:Deligny's practical theory can be envisioned as a materialism. This materialism is based on the dialectical, conflictual, symbiotic, and bipolar coexistence of the "human" and the "Man-that-we-are," of the innate and the acquired, and of the milieu of the human and that of the animal. It is founded with a view to the space—the conditions and circumstances—that make it so that the individual becomes what they are. In brief his materialism is heir to a thought of the milieu as a determinate dimension of the production of the individual. This article was originally published in French in "Lenine," Actuel Marx, no. 62 (2017): 124–39.
{"title":"Editorial Statement","authors":"M. Miguel, Edward Guetti, H. Skott-Myhre, S. Kouri, Kathleen S. G. Skott-Myhre, Benjamin Schreier, T. J. Nez, Kelly Hoffer, Maxwell Woods, Benjamin Williams, Elizabeth Wijaya, T. Conley","doi":"10.1353/cul.2023.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cul.2023.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Deligny's practical theory can be envisioned as a materialism. This materialism is based on the dialectical, conflictual, symbiotic, and bipolar coexistence of the \"human\" and the \"Man-that-we-are,\" of the innate and the acquired, and of the milieu of the human and that of the animal. It is founded with a view to the space—the conditions and circumstances—that make it so that the individual becomes what they are. In brief his materialism is heir to a thought of the milieu as a determinate dimension of the production of the individual. This article was originally published in French in \"Lenine,\" Actuel Marx, no. 62 (2017): 124–39.","PeriodicalId":46410,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Critique","volume":"32 1","pages":"1 - 104 - 105 - 139 - 140 - 166 - 167 - 194 - 197 - 209 - 21 - 210 - 215 - 216 - 219 - 22 - 43 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86756950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article critically examines the development and machinery of a Jewish studies–based literary historical approach to Israel-Palestine organized by the largely unexamined assumption that all things "Israel" are fundamentally or properly "Jewish," in the sense of being primarily or even exclusively Jews' responsibility to face and/or address. This includes the political and moral debate that the state and the occupation occasions but also the discursive frameworks in which representations of Israel, Zionism, and the condition of Palestinians are elaborated and analyzed. The article elaborates this assumption as a Zionist form of intellectuality—"Zionist" because it colonizes a field of discourse in the name of Jewish self-consciousness. Like the presumption that American Jews see Zionism and an attachment to Israel as simply part of the experience of Jewish identity—which went hand in hand with a wider American embrace of Zionism and Israel—a Jewish American literary interest in Israel, and the hegemonic rise of Jewish American literary Zionism, are not self-evident, and they have histories. It should be the work of a critical Jewish studies to destabilize the practice and protocols of this epistemological privilege.
{"title":"Slouching Toward Bethlehem: A Critique of Jewish American Literary-Historical Zionism","authors":"Benjamin Schreier","doi":"10.1353/cul.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cul.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article critically examines the development and machinery of a Jewish studies–based literary historical approach to Israel-Palestine organized by the largely unexamined assumption that all things \"Israel\" are fundamentally or properly \"Jewish,\" in the sense of being primarily or even exclusively Jews' responsibility to face and/or address. This includes the political and moral debate that the state and the occupation occasions but also the discursive frameworks in which representations of Israel, Zionism, and the condition of Palestinians are elaborated and analyzed. The article elaborates this assumption as a Zionist form of intellectuality—\"Zionist\" because it colonizes a field of discourse in the name of Jewish self-consciousness. Like the presumption that American Jews see Zionism and an attachment to Israel as simply part of the experience of Jewish identity—which went hand in hand with a wider American embrace of Zionism and Israel—a Jewish American literary interest in Israel, and the hegemonic rise of Jewish American literary Zionism, are not self-evident, and they have histories. It should be the work of a critical Jewish studies to destabilize the practice and protocols of this epistemological privilege.","PeriodicalId":46410,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Critique","volume":"7 8","pages":"44 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72491878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The figure of the refugee has long been shaped by visual grammars that codify distance, overdetermine corporeality, and constrain affect. Attending to this issue, the subversive photobook Human Archipelago pairs Fazal Sheikh's photography with Teju Cole's commentary to reframe the refugee as a site of critique, destabilize the state-citizen hierarchy, and reorient the imagined spectator. Rather than being positioned away from the refugee, the spectator is intimately with the refugee. Thus, the relation between embodied and distant is disrupted, creating what Laura Marks calls a "haptic visuality." Ultimately, this article argues that Human Archipelago mimics the intimate archives of the family photo album to (re)envision those who might be considered kin. In doing so, Cole and Sheikh attest to the imbricated process of colonization, dispossession, and racialization.
{"title":"\"Who Is Kin to Me?\": Textual and Textural Intimacies in Teju Cole and Fazal Sheikh's Human Archipelago","authors":"Benjamin Williams","doi":"10.1353/cul.2023.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cul.2023.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The figure of the refugee has long been shaped by visual grammars that codify distance, overdetermine corporeality, and constrain affect. Attending to this issue, the subversive photobook Human Archipelago pairs Fazal Sheikh's photography with Teju Cole's commentary to reframe the refugee as a site of critique, destabilize the state-citizen hierarchy, and reorient the imagined spectator. Rather than being positioned away from the refugee, the spectator is intimately with the refugee. Thus, the relation between embodied and distant is disrupted, creating what Laura Marks calls a \"haptic visuality.\" Ultimately, this article argues that Human Archipelago mimics the intimate archives of the family photo album to (re)envision those who might be considered kin. In doing so, Cole and Sheikh attest to the imbricated process of colonization, dispossession, and racialization.","PeriodicalId":46410,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Critique","volume":"55 1","pages":"167 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82717076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"The Mad (Wo)Man in Black Studies\"","authors":"Megan L. Finch","doi":"10.1353/cul.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cul.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46410,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Critique","volume":"330 1","pages":"219 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85333591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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